Morning General Session
Our morning general session will include a Keynote Address by Tara Nathan, Executive Vice President for the Humanitarian & Development Sector at Mastercard, and a Fireside Chat with Bonnie Glick, Deputy Administrator, USAID.
Keynote Address:
Tara Nathan is Executive Vice President for the Humanitarian & Development Sector at MasterCard. In this role, she leads the company’s strategy to develop and scale products & solutions for the Base of the Pyramid. The Humanitarian & Development team is dedicated to creating an ecosystem that streamlines access to education, health, commerce, and other vital services for the most vulnerable communities. By working in collaboration with governments, NGOs and other private sector companies, Tara’s team is focused on driving commercially sustainable social impact.
Prior to this role, Ms. Nathan served as chief executive officer of Mobile Payment Solutions, a Mastercard/Smart Hub, Inc. joint venture. In this role, she led the innovation and commercial development of the Mastercard Mobile Payments Gateway, an open mobile payment processing platform designed to facilitate mobile payments for consumers around the world, particularly important for consumers in emerging economies who do not have access to modern forms of commerce.
Before joining Mastercard, Ms. Nathan headed Citigroup’s cross-sell business and also held various management roles across Citigroup’s retail banking business including Commercial Banking, Risk, and Operations. Prior to that, Ms. Nathan was a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service serving posts in Taiwan, Japan and China.
Ms. Nathan will draw on her experience in both the public and private sectors, including time as a foreign service officer, in her remarks.
Fireside Chat:
Bonnie Glick serves as Deputy Administrator of the US Agency for International Development. Ms. Glick was most recently the Deputy Secretary of the Maryland State Department of Aging, where she was appointed by Governor Larry Hogan. Before joining the Hogan Administration, she worked in the non-profit world as a Senior Vice President at Meridian International Center. Prior to that, she worked for IBM in a variety of positions, which ranged from Account Executive in the Global Business Services Division to Business Development Executive in IBM's Research Division.
Ms. Glick began her career as a Foreign Service Officer in the Department of State, where she served tours of duty at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations during Operation Desert Shield; at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and at the U.S. Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua. From Nicaragua, she returned to Washington, D.C., to serve on the staff of the Secretary of State's Operations Center, followed by two years as a Senior Officer in the White House Situation Room, and then in the State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Ms. Glick holds a B.A. in Government/International Relations from Cornell University, an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and an M.B.A. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Amharic, French, and Russian